I am an EECS PhD student at MIT, advised by
Erik Demaine in CSAIL and
Zach Lieberman at the
Media Lab. My work has been generously supported by the MIT MAD
Design Fellowship, the NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship, and the
MIT Stata Family Presidential Fellowship.
I develop mathematical abstractions and computational tools to
enable new ways of designing and fabricating. At the moment, I'm particularly intruiged by the possible interplays between
computation and craft, especially in creating expressive,
personalized, and responsive fashion.
Photo by my wonderful sister
Esther
in Busan, South Korea (2025)
News
10/2025
I'll be exhibiting a collection of 2D and 3D
'constellation' artworks at the
Wiesner Gallery
in December. Please come visit! The opening reception is planned for December 10th from 6PM to 8PM.
10/2025
I am attending
SCF 2025 hosted here at MIT
with a poster and demo of
Refashion. Please say hello—I'd love to chat!
10/2025
Wow, I met and presented to Diane von Fürstenberg, Stuart Weitzman,
and Tony Fadell this month thanks to
MAD—feeling so incredibly grateful!
07/2025 🇰🇷
Refashion, my first HCI paper, will be presented and demoed at
UIST 2025 in Busan, South
Korea!
07/2025
My art piece
all these things i want to tell you, and yet i can't find
the words
will be on display at
MathFest 2025.
Spiraling is on display at public art exhibition
Intersections
(featured on
KING5 Evening) and to be presented at
Bridges 2025
in Eindhoven, Netherlands.
I'm starting my PhD at MIT this fall! Grateful to my undergraduate advisors
Will Evans,
Craig Kaplan,
Alla Sheffer
et al. for fostering my curiosity and creativity, and for their advocacy.
Research Highlights
My research—often taking the form of varied thought experiments—centers on synthesizing ideas across domains in designing new ways of thinking and making. As such, my work spans human–computer interaction, computer graphics and vision, theoretical computer science, and art. While I publish in academic venues, I’m equally drawn to alternative outcomes of research. I've found the right homes for my ideas through artworks, creative tools, and educational resources.
Human-Computer InteractionComputational Design
Refashion: Reconfigurable Garments via Modular Design
UIST 2025
How can we design garments for change and reuse? By reimagining garments as dynamic assemblies rather than static products, Refashion enables users to resize, restyle, and remix their garments on demand.
How can we thread tubes with single string to achieve the
desired structure when pulling the string taut? By viewing the problem from a graph-theoretical lens, we present efficient algorithms for computing minimum-length threadings.
How can we create constellations with unconventional star
arrangements? We propose a method that automatically generates
constellations from graph-based descriptions, using circle
packings as scaffolding.
I consider mathematics and computation as artistic media—they provide alternative vocabularies for making. Many of the artworks shown in my gallery have served as both inspiration and vehicles for developing and sharing these ideas.